PSU Womens Swimming/Diving defeats Saint Joseph (Conn.)

Posted: Jan 19, 2008

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - Five individuals won two
events apiece Saturday afternoon as the Plymouth State University
women's swimming and diving team defeated Saint Joseph College,
140-112, at the Bruyette Natatorium.

The Panthers won 13 of the 16 events in the meet, including both
relay races. Both teams now have 2-5 dual meet records on the
season.

DiGiacomo posted season-best times in winning two events, the
200-yard freestyle (2:09.31) and the 500-yard freestyle
(5:53.19). Milligan captured the 50-yard breaststroke (35.19
seconds) and the 100-yard free (1:10.00), and Little was the winner
of the 50-yard free (27.23) and the 50-yard fly (29.44). The
three teamed up with Sweeney to capture the 200-yard medley relay
(2:06.32) and with junior Lindsay Osborne (Cedar
Falls, Iowa) to take the final event of the meet, the 400-yard free
relay.

Marrie went uncontested in winning the two diving events, scoring a
season-high 181.95 points in the one-meter, six-dive format, and
posting a 137.70 score in the one-meter, five-dive voluntary
event. Sweeney touched the wall first in both the 50-yard
backstroke (32.07) and the 100-yard back (1:01.60). PSU's
other individual winner was sophomore Tracey
Posnick (Sharon, Mass.), who captured the 1,000-yard
freestyle in 12:18.26.

Leading the way for the home team was freshman Sarah Wheeler
(Winchendon Springs, Mass.), who took the 100-yard butterfly
(1:01.64) and the 100-yard individual medley (1:09.77), and junior
Anne Weeks (Mystic, Conn.), who captured the 100-yard breaststroke
(1:18.03).

PSU returns to the pool next Saturday with a dual meet at UMass
Dartmouth (1:00 p.m.) Saint Joseph hosts Western New England
College on Friday (7:00 p.m.)